Board Meeting 05/14/2025

001Order and we will begin with roll call, please. Mara Rich James, yes. Bo Shrader, yes. Peggy McCormack, yes. Janet Matthysse, here. Wall Wallace, here. Scott Walter, here. Uh, next up, affirmation of proof of publication of tonight's agenda. Welcome back, Kim. You're on mute. Uh, you're muted. Okay. Can you hear me? Yeah. Good. Welcome back. Oh, yay. What a welcome back. I can't even unmute myself. What a pleasure. Um, I, Kimberly Johnson, hereby certify that the notice of Kapo area schools May 14, 2025 regular school board meeting was caused to be published in the Epitap news on 5725 and posted on billboards in the following places on 51225. Gapuk 12 school building citizens first bank post office stop and the school website. [Music] Thank you. Thank you. Nice to hear you go through that again. We're

002all emotional having you back with us as well. Was your favorite part, wasn't it? Uh, number three, I'll entertain a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Does anybody has any edits? To approve the agenda. I'll second. Motion by Earl, second by Bo to approve tonight's agenda. I would um ask for one little modification. and the new cell phone or personal communication device policy. In reading that, that's a big change. I'd like to have a little discussion on that. So, if we can move consent agenda item G to action agenda item K. I would appreciate it. Okay. I'll amend the motion to move G to action K. and I'll second the change. Okay. As amended, I'll all in favor I opposed. Motion passes. All right. Then we get to election of board officials. And as I recall,

003Marley, you shared the policy regarding this with me. I glanced at that. But we'll start with I think president. And can I ask a question first? Is there anybody that's serving as an officer this year that would not care to do it next year? Everybody would be okay. I was going to make sort of make a little statement. I'm happy to serve for another year, but as Marlon and Kim know, the last 9, 10, 15 months, I haven't been around as much as I had been and hadn't been as engaged as I wanted to be as president on things. We got a a growing sort of business and it's pulling me nine ways from Sunday. So, if anybody else would like to step into this role, I'd be happy to relinquish the reigns. But if

004you're all if you didn't notice a difference, first of all, I'm offended because I feel like I fell short. But I noticed I just didn't say. But as I said, I'm happy happy to continue. You guys are okay. But so nobody's jumping. Look at those hands in the air. Everybody's happy. I'll make motion to keep the present elected official for the 25 26 year. I'll second that. Thank you, Scott. Let me just Here you go, Scott. [Music] Your first time. Thank you. I see you waiting till after. You should go back to the whole weekend. They didn't vote yet, Eric. They didn't vote. Oh, well, sorry. That's true. That's true. Nobody wants I got to do this before I get a stamp. I don't know. Probably not for the Does he have a single? All

005right. Motion by Arrol, second by Janet to uh stay with the same officers we've had for the past year for the 2526 school year. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. That was quick. Audience to visitors and board members. Anybody else from the public call in? So, we've got our student council reps ready to update us on all things Kikapoo. Okay. All righty. Um, I've been here before, but I'm Gwen Frederickson. I'm a senior this year. And I'm Ann Clemens. I'm a junior. Okay. I'll start off in middle school. So, for English, all sixth and seventh grade students will be participating in the Wisconsin Business World Quick Trip Innovation Contest this month. This project encourages students to collaborate with classmates to develop an an innovative product or procedure for Quick Trip stores. Students will be

006challenged to consider target market, price point, and marketing ideas. All the sixth and seventh grade ELA students will round out the year with a unit on public speaking. They will be writing informative and demonstration and demonstration speeches, respectively. In English A, students are currently reading The Lightning Thief. This action-packed book is revealing the world of Greek mythology to our students. Paired with the novel, students are working on developing their skills of sentence writing. Students are studying complex sentences with a focus on understanding and identifying the difference between independent and dependent clauses. For science, eighth grade physical science is finishing the school year with chemical reactions, just what they love as it involves a lot of time in the lab. The use of buns and burners and chemical changes galore. It is a challenging unit because

007the concept the concepts are tough and the group needs to obtain a lot of focus in the lab. As an overall group, they have done remarkably well. Super proud of them. Spanish students recently designed clothing flyers for an imaginary store in Spanish speaking country and performed shopping skits to practice clothing and color vocabulary. After finishing reading their first novel completely in Spanish, Spanish 2 students created movie trailer projects to highlight the most important scenes of the book. They turned out great. We may have some future filmmakers among us. Both classes are learning the historical significance behind the Cinco de Mayo holiday and celebrating with me Mexican food, music, and crafts. Spanish 1 collaborated with the 4K class to make Morocca instruments. Sixth grade life skills. We've been focusing on building confidence in ourselves, identifying our

008strengths and weaknesses, working to determine who will who we respect and why we can emulate those traits. We are also discussing being healthy in regards to our diet, our activity level, and sleep. The next weeks will will bring identifying our emotions, determining what we value, and how to establish our own personal power. We will use the movie Inside Out to apply our outstanding our understanding of these lessons as the culmination for the quarter. founder high school in English 11 to 12 CCR students have been learning about it's a big word transm transcendum yeah I don't know why um recently they chose a quote that was meaningful to them and designed a poster that represents what it means to them we will end the year with gothic literature Edgar Allen Holmes, Nathaniel, and more contemporary author.

009Advanced Lit students completed three major parts of their scripts and now participating in script analysis and table talks with their classmates. These sessions give them focused feedback and a chance to discuss their merits of their writing against five focus areas. College Prep English students are meeting the challenge of presenting their research findings from quarter 3 to their peers with confidence and clarity. Their topics reflect a wide range of interest and academic inquiry, including year-round schooling, the impact of inflation on American farmers and the enduring mystery of DB Cooper. These presentations not only showcase students skills, but also foster public speaking and critical thinking abilities. Each student presents for 20 to 25 minutes followed by a 20-minute Q&A session. The response from classmates have been overwhelmingly positive. Students are highly engaged throughout the presentations with thoughtful

010questions and lively discussion that often continue right up to the end of the quarter and sometimes beyond. Ninth grade English are ending the year with Greek mythology. Students completed a completed a web quest to familiarize themselves with poet Homer Greek culture and traditions and develop an understanding of some of the important gods and goddesses. Students are focusing on an epic poetry element. We have begun studying excerpts from the Odyssey and will finish the year by viewing the 1997 film and discussing the portrayal of the elements we're studying. English 10 students are studying rhetorical skills including strategy, organization, and style. Here are some of the work toward a better understanding of trai transitions. Appropriate use paragraph organization and understanding both redundancy and wordiness and writing. Upon completion of this unit, students will finish the year developing

011their understanding of vocabulary and context moves, reading efficiently and effectively. uh making a plan and writing to prompt given AP English language students continue to prep for the exam on May 14th consisting of 45 multiple choice questions to be answered in 60 minutes followed by three essays to completed in 2 hours and 15 minutes. The first essay provides a prompt and six sources and students must layer at least three sources to support their stance on the subject. The second essay asks students to non-fiction piece and analyze rhetorical choices that the author used. The final essay is an open-ended argument. Students take a stance on the prompt topic and support their argument with their own buckets of knowledge. This exam basically focus on the rhetorical situation. In the days following the exam, juniors write both a

012scholarship and college application essay. Seniors will work on cleaning up their Google drives and saving items into their personal drives. Future WL English non-current enrollment students took a placement test on May 7th after meeting with WL rep on May 1st and then worked on a practice placement test afterwards. Okay. Math. Both JV and varsity math teams received first place at the Twin Conference math contest out of eight teams. For science, Mr. class has been doing a variety of things in all of his classes. Earth science students are currently designing Mars rovers. They are creating vehicles that are self-powered and will be testing them soon. Biology students are entering the last unit on ecology. They just created food web showing the flow of energy through ecosystems and the interactions that take place between organisms. Anatomy and

013physiology students are discussing digestion and nutrition and will finish the school year off with reproduction and development. One of their last projects is caring for an infant by taking a baby sim simulator around them around with them during the school day. AP environmental science students are finishing their last unit on global change and preparing for the AP test on May 13th. Chem students just finished out a unit on thermmochemistry and were charged with investigating various materials to build a housing for an ice cube penguin. The goal was to build the lowest mass structure possible while keeping the penguin ice cube from melting. The teams had the opportunity to revise their designs based upon pre-esting and additional research. It was fun way to finish out the event. Um for seniors, the seniors just went on their

014senior trip this past weekend in the Dells where they stayed at the wilderness and then they went to the outlet mall and everything like that. And then we are going to be going on our brewery trip on the 21st and then we're going to be graduating next Friday. And then for juniors, the junior hosted prom. The juniors hosted prom on April 12th. They had a great turnout and everyone had a good time. Sophomores, we had we have been working on ideas on ways to spruce up our 5K fundraiser and are excited to enter into our junior year. Freshmen have completed all their fundraisers for the for the year and are working hard to complete their first year of high school. We are also working to think ahead for activities such as homecoming for next year.

015Art just had their art show which is still displayed up in the cafeteria and then out towards the auditorium. Um FFA went on their spring trip um in April to up near Stevens Point. And then drama drama students are posing ideas for next year's show. Forensics state forensics went was on Friday, April 11th. Wendy Kelly um placed gold. Nila Fle Hardy placed silver. Nico Bel Valdez plays silver. Nikolai Rose plays bronze and Eliza Wallace with bronze. High school student council. The 2526 student council has been elected. The current student council allow voted to allow more representative per class for next year for better represent representation from each class and for more help with activities the student council runs. For music, April was a great time for kick music. Kikma took over 50 events um to

016school ensemble contest and of the 32 eligible for state 22 made it. On April 23rd we had large group festival in Westby where each middle school and high school band and choir earned first ratings from all three judges. On April 26th, we took 22 events to state, earning six second ratings and 16 first ratings. We are also blown away that three events were awarded exemplary awards at state. Each judge hears about 40 events in a day and we are allowed to give two exemplary awards. Charlie Zelhoffer on the Euphorium, Lane Miller on the trombone, and Lane and Sam for their vocal duet. All earned executive rewards. In May, we had a final band concert on May 5th, final choir concert on May 12th, and coming up we have community outreach at Bethl Homes with middle

017school choir on May 16th, elementary spring concert on May 21st. perform at graduation on May 23rd and perform at Memorial Day services on May 26th. On May 14th, we will hold anformational meeting on the music trip to Washington DC new New York for the spring spring of 2026. The fall musical is announced James and the Giant Beach. Auditions will be held at the end of May for FID/Jim. The elementary just finished up a successful jump off for heart campaign this past month and have had swimming parties as a result of making their school goal. And middle school and high school PE are in their archery unit and will also begin fitness testing for work study and youth apprenticeship. As the year comes to a close, I want to provide special recognition to the following students

018for their hard work through their work study and apprenticeships this year. So pretty much I'll name off and then what they have accomplished. So juniors Heaven Turner and Nina Clark are both working at Roa Family Restaurant and Landon Smitty is working at Aaron Hansen Trucking. Jake Melie is working at Slama Equipment and Lita Chant is working at Green Tech Enterprises. Chloe Mont is working at Vernon Humane Society. Mariana Miller is at Dollar General and Kyle Havick is at J&J Dipnetss. JJ Olsson is at Countertops Unlimited. Payton Hulcom is at Bathy. Abe Clemens obtained a CDL and will continue his career through the Lafarge Trucking Center. Tyler Prowley is at Low Manufacturing and will continue an apprenticeship through WWTC and automotive. Benny Culver is at Low Manufactur Manufacturing. Brock Melie is at News Noms and Carps

019Construction and will continue his career working at Carps Construction. Hayden Peterson is at Fowler and Hammer and he obtained his apprenticeship and will continue his career. Juel Klein Saucer is at Pine Valley. Raymond Rosinski is at Hatfield Farms. Ethan Heersbach is at Lafarge Truck Center, but he obtained a a sponsorship to YO Tech through the Leafarge Truck Center. And Ellery Young is at Solar Town Farm and Home. And then finally, yearbook. The yearbook was published and yearbook program um they were announced yearbook program of excellence winner. The KHS yearbook staff received Justin's program of excellence silver award for their 2025 publication. staff were notified of their award at the Johnson Spring Premiere event held at the Wisconsin Dallas High School on April 29th. That's what we got. It's amazing how much goes on in this

020building, isn't it? Thank you, ladies. Thanks, ladies. So, what is the difference between a determinant and indeterminate plus? Couple of letters. I'm just kidding. I don't know. And I end they just report. Thank you. Thank you both. You're welcome. Congratulations on your Yeah. Yeah. Be back next year probably. I'll be back sometime. Where where are you heading after? I'm going to Yoda and then I'm actually majoring in elementary education to hopefully come back here. Nice. We'll see. Nice. Well, good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, girls. See you. Board members, any ideas? Must have been tracking deal. Yeah. Yes. Everybody's right. Um, is everybody I mean, we I think we talked about that before, but everybody good with that every month? Would every other month be better or it's good to do every month? bring

021if you can get them to do it every month, but if you go No, I just want I was curious from you. I think it's been good that you know they're here. It's good to hear the info, but just wanted to check and make sure. Who puts all that together? Them? Uh, no. We put out a Google doc to the teachers. Oh, okay. Then the teachers fill out what you know and some fill it out each month, some don't. We try to Well, I mean, it's good. I just don't want burden on No, no. We put a Google doc out and the teachers fill it out and then and I do appreciate that. But, you know, I do miss having um staff in different times, you know, when we have meetings that are don't have

022such a long time. But I mean, I still remember like coming in group in and there's others that haven't had a chance and it would be I I'd still like to see some of Okay. It would be good to get back to some of this month or so. And I I really enjoy listening to this, but it's pretty rapid fire just to the thought if if each teacher wanted to submit a PowerPoint slide and the student, you know, bullets and they could go through and talk with some pictures. I don't know. Just Are you talking for this report? Yeah. I think that might be a lot to ask, Scott. I mean, I think the part of, you know, we're putting it out. I think if none then they're adding that they're going to do a

023PowerPoint. That might be I don't know. I don't I don't know. To put three bullets on a PowerPoint slide is would take less time than writing the whole summary. Oh, you're saying have the staff do that? Yeah, the staff do that. Oh, you mean for the staff report? Well, didn't you say that you send an email out to staff? Yeah. What are you doing in your classes that for this report? Yeah. And then they just jot down bullet points for that. Yeah, that might work. Yeah. So each staff member instead of sending a paragraph would send a PowerPoint slide that they would then put together and Okay, I see what you're saying. Okay. Just a thought. Okay. Cuz this, you know, they're it would get it would add a visual at least for add a

024visual and Okay. All right. If they wanted to. Yeah. I mean, just an idea. All right. Different way of conveying information. Um, expense vouchers and receipts then is next up on our agenda tonight. I didn't see anything that jumped out at me. Uh, I had a couple questions. Melie had a $6,500 on hers. Um, so that is part of her, um, common school funds that she has to spend that it's a grant basically. Um, and it's just some new technology for in the library to kind of help update that and use grant funds for it. I figured that's what it was for, but I just wanted to double check. And then it looks like Peterson has like three different things to CDW government for a lot of money. That's actually also for the library as

025well to help update the technology in there. That was all through that same um library grant as well. Okay, perfect. Anything else? What was your mystery science then? Um mystery science is everybody in the element. We don't have something we're working on is we don't have a specific science curriculum in the elementary. And part of the reason that we don't have that is because especially in the younger grades when they move, we spend so much time on reading and math is I don't want to pay for something that doesn't get used. I don't want us to buy a book in a curriculum that is going to be used and just sits there. So mystery science is something the teachers have used for probably seven, eight or nine years. It's been a while and it has

026videos and it goes it's a curriculum. It's a science curriculum. Is it enough to be the whole thing? No, but teachers use it um especially first, second, and third grade and fourth and fifth grade use it too. They use it all the way through not as a supplement, but that's it's kind of their core science and then they add to it as they go. Very cool. If we ever get to a point where we want a full one, then we probably get rid of that. But right now, it's everybody uses it. That's what they're using. So that's what that is. Thank you. Yep. Any other questions? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve tonight's expense vouchers and receipts. I can make that motion. I'll second it. Motion by Rich, second by Earl. All in

027favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. a very beefy consent agenda tonight uh including minutes from last month's regular board meeting, last month's policy and legislative affairs committee meeting, authorization for the administration to approve or deny applications for open enrollment. Uh a few student handbook revisions, a road construction permit. Uh first reading on policy 5411 regarding third grade promotion, some Neola policy revisions, a teacher resignation, a number of donations which I'll mention quickly, a number for the sea purge trip uh from Nick Martin, $500, Rockwell Automation, 500, Terrence Mullen, 100, Shakowski Brands 500, and an anonymous donation of $300. Uh 2526 letters of employment for support staff and the athletic trainer agreement with BMH. Any questions, comments, thoughts on any of those items? on the the handbook, middle school handbook. I know Scott said a few

028changes and I noticed that it's one page that's very just a couple of things and then there's followed by technology and education edition there. Is that part of your handbook too or is there for some other reason according to what and Mara you can jump in on this but according to what Nola felt in the Google part of it we should have it all in there correct? I mean that's the way said they felt like that's that's yeah it's a very long version of it cuz that's what we looked at and we discussed it like do we really need to put the whole thing in there and but they really kind of said to do it said to do it yeah I know there whether anybody will ever read it probably not but they must

029have a reason like when a parent said I didn't know this you didn't right because yeah it is very lengthy I can't even say I read the whole thing but I did it and it did impress impressed me. I thought, oh, this is one of the Yeah, you got to tell them. Yeah. But yeah, we did double check on that because we thought, can't we just summarize this down? But no problem. And then the other thing I just for information of any other board members, especially newer ones who might not be aware of it, letters of employment for support staff is something we do every year. basically to support staff and bus drivers, right? Who assures them that they have a job in the fall and that means they cannot unemployment. Hearing no other questions,

030I'll entertain a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda. I can make that motion. I'll second. Motion by Rich, second by Bo to approve tonight's consent agenda. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Action agenda includes a number of items that uh are included in your board packet. the first being the uh 2025 summer school program and associated [Music] teachers. Um in your pack, all the teachers are listed for what we have. We're doing it a little bit different this year just based on the staff that was willing to teach summer school. We first, second, and third grade are going to be there are three teachers that are going to do that. We called it Camp Kickapoo and we'll divvy I'll divvy them up once we get the final number of kids that are in here.

031We're going to try to do summer or swimming lessons again with them. And then for fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, we actually have classes that they could the parents can sign them up for the years like last year we just had all the fourth and fifth sixth graders together and kind of divvied them up. Um and we didn't have the staff to do that. And actually, I think it's I have 163 kids signed up this year and I only had 150 some last year. Some will come out of the woodwork. I have sent numerous reminders to parents that they can't just show up on the first day of school with their fifth grader expecting a class because Lori Martin class is full. Jake Gerky has two openings left for fishing. Um Lori only

032had so many kits. So, and I've been really specific with that and I'm sure the parents have read my emails very carefully and I nobody will show up and be mad on the first day of school, but that will be my problem, not anybody else's. Um, but no, the numbers look really good. So, I think we're going the right way. Anna and I will sit down and have summer school ready and um Becky Gerky, Jake with the 25 kids and being around water to go fishing, he thought maybe another person and he has one in the family that is willing to help. So Becky signed up wants to be on there, but that's any questions on any of the names or anything, but it'll be here before you know. Anybody want to enter a motion

033to approve? I'll make that motion. Second. Motion by Janet, second by Earl to approve this summer's programs and the teachers. All in favor? I oppose. Motion passes. Next up, 2526 health insurance renewal. There was a table table in here. Is it in the packet? Yep. Yep. Oh, that but that's just Yep. And then on the next page after that we have um but I it's Could you step through that? Could you step through that information? Yeah. So, it was about a month ago that Kim and I had met with Janice at the insurance center and Taylor and Taylor is their data analytics at the insurance center. So he's the one that looks through all of our numbers every month and he makes up these projections for what our expenses probably will be. I mean it's

034always a guesstimate with self-funded. Um so this first page on there is just what they are recommending we change our premiums to. It's about a 6% increase in premiums from last year to this year. And that is coming from if you look on the next page um what they are projecting our expenses to be next year. Um, and they actually divvied it up into what they project our expenses to be for next year, which is 6% increase from this year. And then on the far right column, um, they do give us an estimate of if we were to have that fully funded health insurance plan and move back to that, that would result in a 16 almost 17% increase in expenses. Um, again, these are all estimates. It's it's really dependent on what happens medically

035within the staff. So this number could come in way lower or if something catastrophic happens, knock on wood that doesn't, but it it always could end up slightly higher. This is only our second year, right? This is year number two we're finishing. Yes, this current year is year number two. So do you have any clue on how they came up with that 6%? Are they just doing some kind of an industrywide sort of thing or are they looking at our group as if they look at our group specifically um and I haven't seen the the use on it but they look at it monthly and if and Taylor who's their data analytics person and Janice does as well whenever something comes in kind of high they they dig into it to see what is the

036cause of it if if everything is correct or if something was coded wrong if something wonky happened. Um, but yeah, they they look at us specifically for everything. So they Yeah, and I know they've got software and I'll let it do it, but as long as Yeah. Thank Thank you for getting that. So the deductible is going up $1,000. Yes, deductible is going up next year. Not quite a,000, but that doesn't necessarily mean the staff is paying more, right? or so yes deductible increases that will affect the staff um and that was at the recommendation of Janice just because to be still be a high deductible health plan that was increasing that's right I knew that and it's uh it's been increasing every year so she was like you should increase it to 7,000 for

037that family just so that you're covered for hopefully two years um so it's not an adjustment every year but Yeah. Yeah. So then as long as we're still in that high deductible, we can keep our HSA. If we didn't meet high deductible, we can't keep our HSA. It was last year. Was it 256,000 then? I guess I totally missed that because it's in the title and I didn't I don't see it. Um anywhere else. This current year our deductible for single plans is 3,200 and family is 6,400. Okay. Oh, okay. I didn't I know where it was. So family went up to 600. So, does our staff actually pay that full deduct? But they get the other, right? Depends on what they use for medical insurance. Some may if you go to the doctor more

038often. Okay. Um but we don't the school, we the district does not subsidize any premium the deductibles on staff. Yep. Um we do do that HSA payment. The HSA HSA. So that would kind of basically So the interesting thing to me and one of the important aspects of the selfunded model is our staff behavior when they need to see a doctor or refer to a specialist. So they're they're projecting a 6% increase based on our staff's willingness to make the phone call. Mhm. Based on trends kind of where a lot of our staff are going. Um they also have more information on what they expect the medical industry to do on like increasing costs, things like that, if any um prescriptions they know are going to increase. So, it's kind of a combination of a

039few different things that they look at in it to come up with that number. I'm sure there's a lot of things there, but I mean, it could even be down to the level the level of they know what cases they're paying on now and what continues and that kind of thing. So, they might be we won't know till next year how close they came to being right because it's only first time they've actually done it for us. Mhm. But some of that stuff has gotten pretty sophisticated as far as following those trends. I don't know if they use or not, but they seemed right on the ball when we talked to them before we went here. So, we'd be able to see confidentially, of course, with no names, but a breakdown of, you know, how

040our staff is behaving, you know, how how many are making the call and pursuing a cheaper option and getting the refund. So, we do get a monthly report on that. We really don't see a lot of names on it or anything. Um, that is something that during our call, we did talk to Janice about because it is not being utilized to the capacity that it could be. Um, so Janice will be coming during one of our inservice days and she goes over this more. Um, and that's one thing that she's going to highlight again and then we're going to try and push out more just information and communication on the benefits of it. because that's where this becomes a cost effective model for us. It is already. I mean, we're saving whatund well $100,000. Yeah.

041And and there are some staff that have come in and talked to me and they they use it whenever whenever they need to. Um, I mean, just going in for your regular checkup, they're not going to call for that. But if there's a need, they they have and they have seen that cost savings, whereas that's only been a couple people that have come in and really told me anything. But yeah, right now there isn't a ton of utilization. That's important because when Janice was here, the cost differences were huge. I mean, a procedure might cost $40,000 here and eight here. It's just astounding without them driving very far. Even in her without them driving like they were being asked to go very far. Yeah. So, she's coming to talk to staff again. Good. Good. Any

042other discussion? Hearing none. Anybody want to make a motion? Like to make that motion. All seven. Motion by Rich, second by Janet to approve the 2526 health insurance renewal. All in favor? I opposed. Peggy, do we get an I from you? You sure did. Awesome. Thank you. Motion passes. uh item C on the action agenda adding another section to second grade and I didn't see anything in the packet here. I think there is um kind of the conversation we had last month not kind of that for some reason we keep drawing kids into the first grade class. It started out as 20 and 21. It is at 23 right now and we know for sure two kids are coming next year to make it 25. And with the needs that we have in that class,

043um 20 I don't feel comfortable with 25 and second grade next year. And we have fourth grade is 13 and 12. They have 25 um Janet was on the interview committee. We had two really good candidates to go along. Um which we'll talk about later, but I think I think it's what's best for the kids in that grade. I think it's what's best for our school district. Um Kim and I talked about it said you can make it work with the numbers. I think it's the best thing we can do for our school and the kids in that grade and have two together and split them up and have 12 and 13. And I think we can get even hone in more. And there's a few behaviors in there. Not there's nothing explosive. I mean

044there's there's just there's some behaviors in there and being able to break them up and get them away from each other is only going to be beneficial. And the other part and having I was involved with the grade that we had just one of that went out through your daughter was in that grade. It gets really hard when they can never get away from each other for 12 years and they're always in the same home room where when you have two, you can mix them up a little bit and they change that and they get different front groups and yeah, they're together at recess and stuff, but it helps mix that up. So, I hope that the board will support that. And Andy, we had a talk about this last month, right? You presented this.

045Yes. To get it on your radar. I hope you do. I pro no problem with I mean it's kind of borderlineish but still I mean it's a lot and my son through the beginning of in you know they had two two grades there two classrooms at that time but they had 27 28 rooms came back just even you know many years ago even having been in those classrooms that that was not what's good. Yeah, if it's a borderline recommend better education then for the teacher too I think you know to ask 25 kids for one teacher I mean for burnout or anything else I think it's imperative that we take care of the teacher as well and I think you said so you guys are talking in the budget kind of one of those where

046it fits and we work around it and we may have to go back and ask for where can we do reduction somewhere else. But I mean this this is some a body right in front of kids. So that's not removed at all. This is Yeah. So absolutely. I can make that motion to where's it at? Add another section to second grade. Oh, second it. Motion by Rich, second by Earl to add another section to second grade. Then all in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. Good deal. Next. Next up, 2526 WSB delegate and alternate. Well, early willing to be the delegate yet. If you'll be the delegate, I'll be the alternate because the only way I have to do it is that you're not there. No, I was a delegate this year also because CISA's

047person had to back out at the last minute. So, they gave us something for the CIA and it was very interesting. So, I did I did enjoy it, but I'll I'll still let you do it. Even though technology wasn't quite as good as it should be. So, fun way in our panels. Entertain a motion to keep Earl as our WSB delegate with Janet as the alternate. I'll make that motion. I'll second it. Motion by Bose, second by Peggy. All in favor? I I opposed. And I'll put my plug in again if anybody I know when you're working it's really hard to get get to the convention. I don't think I ever went till I retired. But um it is always a good experience and lots of good information. So yeah, I went a couple times

048the previous times and yeah, it was it was it was a very good experience. Just be there for you know Tuesday or Wednesday. I mean, the information was unbelievably good for Wednesday, Thursday. I agree. But it is hard. It is hard. I know. I've wanted to go. I went my first year and I told Marl I'd go every year since and then back out at the end because you just get Yeah, I too many trees to tap it. January. Well, you never know. All right, moving on. and 2526 CISA 3 representative. I've usually done that perfectly. I was across the street at Southwest Tech and no because I'm on the board, but if anybody else would like to do it, it's it's the reorganizational meeting at the beginning of August and I'm not up for

049this year. Good afternoon. Motion that we have Janet be the CISA 3 rep. I'll second motion by second by a vote to approve Janet as our CISA 3 rep for the coming school year. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. Item F then, district fees for the 2526 school year. This is in your packet. Are these uh same, aren't they? Yes. Yeah, they're the same. Comment on it, Alison, but Okay. It's We didn't change We're not changing the lunch price either. Yep. So DPI has actually sent out quite a few things on that with if you're required to if you need to kind of things like that. Right now with where our fund balance is sitting in fund 50 we are not required to increase our lunch account. That's why we started raising it

050every year as they told us. Yeah. And and right now we're good and and they've kind of made it where you can only have so much in your fund 50 fund balance now. And and we're we're within a good limit. We're not over it and we're not in a deficit right now. He also pays their pays their wages. That's there's no other discussion. I'll entertain a motion. I'll make a motion that we keep the same re recommendation for lunch prices for the coming year. Second. Motion by Errol, second by Rich to approve the district fees for the coming school year. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Item G then, sale of the school van. You got the background on this? I can speak on this. Jeff came in. It's probably been a few weeks

051ago. um since the purchase of the new Yukon that is in our fleet now and running um he would like to get rid of the 2007 Town and Country. I think he said it either had 167 or 175,000 miles on it. Can't remember which one of those numbers and I didn't bring my note with me. Um but he would like to sell this van. He would prefer to do a sealed bid system. Um ideally we're going to get a $500 minimum on it. Um, yeah, he just needs that. He said it looks rough. It's kind of rusty, but it runs really well still, but it's just not something we need anymore. We advertised for that. Does anyone know how we've done it in the past? I think we've just put it on the website and

052maybe put it in the paper. I think we need to do something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's out there to the public. I could be wrong, but I think in the past it's been on the website in the paper that we've had that. It's been a while, but I remember. I'm pretty sure we did something. Okay, that's fine. I'll make a motion for Jeff to get sealed bids on the van. He um advertises it on the website in the newspaper. I'll second that. Motion by both, second by Peggy for Jeff to sell the van. All in favor? I I motion passes. Uh item H then 2526 teacher contracts. Um so this year it's a little different purely because um not all negotiation has been done on the teacher contracts yet for their salary but um Wisconsin

053state statute says that all teachers have to have a contract by May 15th just showing that they have a job for next year. So this year the contract that they're going to get tomorrow is just going to have all of their information on the contract from last year saying subject to negotiation on the top. Then when all contracts get settled, we'll get another contract with their updated contract for next year. So this is just the list of of teachers that we have. Um I know I have a couple in there with that just say new teachers for actually replacement replacement, but that'll go into more detail a little later. It's the same number of people we had last year. Yeah. So, we're basically approving the list of teachers. Correct. Anybody want to make that motion?

054I can make that motion. I'll second it. Motion made by Rich, second by Janet to approve future contracts for the coming year. All in favor? I opposed. Thank you, Peggy. Motion passes. Item I then solar scoreboard for the baseball field. And there is a letter from B Sporting Goods here. We kind of feel that the generator is doing what it needs to be out there. It runs a little bit cheaper than the 4,000. Uh so we feel that we just stick with the generator. Um and uh cuz that cake and you got to make sure you bring the batteries, everything in in the winter time and take care of everything and maybe two years or whatever we might be looking again. So that because the generator does run a scoreboard that we need it's down

055first baseline which made that loud that when you say we mean building and grounds committee. Yeah we met tonight kind of I guess kind of leads in a sense into the next one with the concession stand and parts of that is part of that is and Peggy you certainly jump in and comment on this too but um the electricity part of it. We looked at where the pole is right now where we hooked the generator up. If we're going to have power to the snack shack, the generator has to run anyways. So if the scoreboard So then you'd have a situation where you you're you got to run them. You know what I mean? It doesn't make any sense because the generator has to run to run the power in the concession stand. So then

056it really wouldn't make any sense to have a solar scoreboard going that it doesn't solve the problem anyway. Um if it's cloudy it may not work. So, and if you read the write up with solar, you need to make sure the facility doesn't plan to run it every day. Needs some downtime. Turn it on and off correctly, especially if the season is over. It could be good, but it might not. Um, so I don't know. That was our I I just felt like we needed at some point get this on an agenda and, you know, make a decision to know of what is functional. Again, Peggy, do you have any I mean that'll lead into the next one, I guess, but any thoughts on the scoreboard part of it? I mean, from your sense? No,

057not really. And I talked to Coach Kaufman about this the other day. And um so the like the bid or whatever this is the that we have here, it doesn't include the batteries. It just includes the housing for the batteries. And the batteries are like twice what this scoreboard costs. So I don't feel that it's a need. And Coach Kaufman doesn't feel like it either. I mean, right now, let's see. on the at the game Tuesday. On the game Tuesday, we ran the scoreboard, the concession stand, and um the radio was there and it worked fine. Oh, wow. Good to know. All right. Well, I don't know if you want to make a vote on that one first. I didn't realize it didn't include that stuff. I as you just said that now, Peggy, I'm

058reading that. I was that really Yeah. So, it's just a norainer now. Put electricity under. I just assume that part was with the I did too. But now, yeah, if you really And I don't I don't know if Kent's understood that either when the guy cuz Kent talked with the guy and went through everything. I don't know that that was I never heard anybody mention that doesn't include the batteries. So, it sounds like even if it does, I Yeah, sounds like we're not going to move toward a solar powered scoreboard. So, I At this point, we didn't we don't really need a vote except we could since it's on the action agenda. Somebody wants to make a motion to maintain the current. Yep. I'll make a motion that we don't go with the solar and

059do what we're doing right now. Second. Motion by second by Ridge to maintain the status quo as far as the baseball scoreboard goes. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. And then as Aaron suggested a related item, the baseball field concession stand. Yeah, we was painting it similar to what the guns are. I painted the red and black. Uh, and then electricity, uh, go there and check out cuz there's four breakers in the box where they plug the generator in. One of them's got to go to the dugout. There's outlets, two outlets in there. One's got to go to the scoreboard to run it. And the other two ain't for certain where they go, but you can take and there's an outlet on the east end of that home team dugout that right now

060for take him plug the cord in there and run up to the concession stand. But I told them that we could take and probably go from there and bury an underground cable up into the concession stand before another year. Peggy, did you did you run it off of the one off the dugout or do you go from the where the generator was? No, I run off the dugout. Okay. So, it does work, which Yeah. So, that's where that's where the under underground power would go right there and then it would go right to the concession stand with outlets and stuff in there. That'd be nice. Then people don't trip or anything. Oh, it does work. So, there we answered one question. We didn't know. That's where the radio was plugged into. Okay, good. Good to

061know. So, so this is on the action agenda. Where are we wanting to approval to dig that? Essentially, it would be to approve to dig the electricity to go to the concession stand, paint the paint the shed, and then um put a little 8 by1 little deck on the front so when people come up to and order and stuff, the wood was already it's sitting. Ros carpenter donated the wood. It's sitting out there just waiting to be built. So, plan be if everything's approved, the kids would have it done before the end of the school year, right? So, anybody want to make that motion? Just before we do it, I saw you talking like $200, $1,000 for the lumber. No, the lumber is, but I mean just I mean hard to dig a I don't

062think we dig it or we can dig it by hand. Yeah, I think dig around. Technically, we'd have to have an but Troy with electrician on staff. It's not very far. It would be really It's probably about pretty simple 50 60 ft up there. It's just I mean the you want to probably dig by hand around the tree roots so you don't destroy the tree roots that are there cuz you start digging cutting them into then you start killing your tree. So I mean the lumber was donated got a little bit of paint the cost of electricity. I don't imagine it's going to be over $250 to do it all. Can I ask one other thing about that before we make a motion? Um, is there a way we could get like a different handle

063or lock or something on it? Because that thing is so hard to open that we can't really lock it. And yeah, for sure. We could we'll get on that. We could do something a lot more functional. Yeah, like even if it's just like a, you know, like a latch with a paddle lock or something. Yeah, we could do that. Or even if Yeah, I mean, we could certainly make something work. I mean, even as simple as a if that didn't work and there was a concern, they could easily frame even just a little entry door or something in there, which isn't going to cost much, but that's a simple one. Okay. Thank you. Any any other thoughts from you, Peggy? I think that I mean, you're the one out there. I think that kind of

064covers everything that will make it really functional, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. And the window they put in is like perfect. And once they get that deck, it'll be nice for people coming up to it that, you know, cuz it's kind of slanted there and it'll make it a little more even. Perfect. Yep. All right. Good deal. I can make that motion make it to discuss for the concession stand. I'll second it. Motion by Rich, second by Bo to I guess approve construction, painting, addition of a deck and trenching in a electrical line for the baseball concession stand. All in favor? I I opposed. Motion passes. And then the last item on the action agenda I asked uh to be dropped down from the consent agenda just because in my mind this is a big change

065and to be honest with you and we had the discussion last month about cell phone or personal communication device use in the classroom. But to be honest with you and admitting something here, I didn't know kids here could have cell phones in the classroom until this came up when Isaac mentioned it. I should have known because thinking back, we have a family snack group or whatever and I'll get these photos from my kids in class and I always wonder how the heck are they doing this? They can have cell phones, I guess, in class. So, but since we're moving in the in the direction as the student handbook update suggests of not allowing cell phones in the classroom except by um Aaron's okay or the principal okay I had a couple thoughts. one, there's a

066the second paragraph, third paragraph of the new policy allows their use for taking notes, recording lectures, writing papers. Um, we had I couldn't remember the resolution of that piece of our discussion, but I remember somebody saying they can just take notes because in my mind everybody's going to say I'm going to use my cell phone to record the lecture. I think, you know, it gives a wedge for students to Yeah. But I don't Maybe I'm missing the wording, but I I mean I think that was part they're they're not allowed at all for anything unless there's unless it's approved. So if a teacher came and said, "Hey, we're we're doing it might be Mr. Lee. We're doing this science project today and the kids are all going to individually need their phones, you know what

067I mean, to do this. Can we do that?" Yes. That would be the only time. It wouldn't be I get to pick today. You were going to do whatever. It would have to be specific. So maybe it doesn't I thought it was still in there approved by the building administrator. Both of them said that. It does say it does say. Okay. But maybe I mean I guess from what you just said it probably would be and we don't have to change it but crystal clear if it was an actual used for teachers instructional purpose because then like you said the teacher is going to come to you and say hey we're doing this so the kids are going to have their phone. It's not like a kid's going to come to you and say I'm

068going to use my phone to record the Right. Correct. Yeah. I guess that makes sense. I see that now. And you're right. It's it's you have or whoever the principal. I I think no matter what it is, there's no caveat of it's okay if they take notes or whatever or it would just be if they're going to use them in class, it has to be administrative approval. Yeah. No, and I agree. But I that's one of those it's very clear on the front end, no cell phones in the classroom, but as time goes by, right, if you start getting badgered, oh, okay. And then this student sees that student with a cell phone and then it gets muddy instead of being clear. No cell phones in the classroom. And even, you know, I I remember

069uh Mr. Lee's survey, 76% of teachers thought they were a disruption. There may be staff that are using cell phones for other than instructional uses, like ah there's 20 minutes left in class. get on your cell phones or you know and so I I just if we're going to adopt this the easiest way to do it is with a hard line and if a student for whatever reason does need a PDA for notetaking recording fine but I think it it has to be approved through you with a very good reason so we don't in a year get into this messy right my friends can use But I can't take Yeah. You know what I mean? Well, they class. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. I think also at our meeting about this, we did talk about that

070um most diabetes monitoring now is like goes straight to your cell phone. So, that was like something that would be we would be able to approve or whatever. Right. Right. Yeah. A medical condition. Mhm. But we have no plan to actually have them turn in the phones or anything because there's been some interesting articles in some of these things too. Yeah. Yeah. They'll they'll have to figure out that part of what they're going to do of leaving them in their locker. I mean, that's really where they're going to have to stay. I just agree with Scott's point of being very specific. because it's, you know, like we talked about, even if they're not out, even if they're in their pocket, it's still that I'm sure we've all felt the buzz in our pocket when there's

071no phone in their pocket, you know, and I mean, it's it's real, you know, and so I think that's the part of just not having them there at all, you know, are there going to be some learning curves and the element of, you know, during classes and out in the hall and hey, if you're out in the hall during class and you're on your phone, then your phone gets taken away. It's no different. It's just it's class time and you're not to be on it at all and you know that element of being on time. You know, we're gonna have some of those things we'll have to work through, but I think this is a really good start. I think they'll just go right along with it. Do you think so? The other part of

072that just from the communication, I mean, providing everybody okay this tonight is that before the end of the school year, I'll put something out, you know, as a communication to parents and kids. We're going to practice it from now. Yeah. The the kids already they've already heard. I mean they already you know but you know we'll put it out communication to parents and kids as well of hey just be aware this is what this is going to be next year and there will be some you know the first call we've already had we've already had people and you know there well it's the safety thing and I need to you know well you know the response I had back is well that element the sheriff's department their first directive to us is that nobody should

073have any cell phones because when they have them out it blocks all the lines and they can't get through. So that's the component, you know what I mean, to that safety concerned about safety reason. So um that's really been the only I guess I don't want to say valid question, you know what I mean? Our concern, but you know, but there will be more first reading of this or we looked at it last week. Was that our was it? This isn't a new this isn't a new policy. This was all right. Y I think in the seven it just had to be closely updated. I think in the seventh paragraph I missed um to cross out a teacher except as authorized by an administrator IEP team. So I will cross that out. The teacher the

074seventh paragraph first slide I missed that teacher to cross [Applause] but yeah I'll fix that. So you're going to cross off both teacher and IE team. Yeah, cuz why can't the IEP team go through the administration too? That way the administration knows okay has knowledge of everything not just you know. So I'm I'm good with it the way it is. I guess I just wanted to make that point that it's got to be a hard line. So unless anybody else has any comments, I'll entertain a motion to approve the personal communications device policy. I can make that motion to approve it with the striking out of the teacher and the IEP team on paragraph 7. Motion by Rich, seconded by Earl, then to approve. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. That brings us on

075to our nicely shortformational agenda with our first discussion item being the food service audit. I will kind of go over a little bit more on what happened with that. Um, so this is something that's supposed to happen every 5 years with co it kind of got delayed a little bit cuz the last time we had one was 2017 or 2018 2017. Um, so this just includes DPI coming in and just taking a closer look at what we're doing in fund 50. Um they look at everything from our financials to like our non-discrimination policy on our food service applications to um how Heather prepares and serves all the food. Um they kind of look at everything. So there was some prep work that we did beforehand just submitting some documents. We had two ladies from DPI

076on site April 24th and 25th. Um Danielle was one of them and she worked more with Heather. Um she spent a lot of time watching them prepare the food, making sure that they were following all of the safety regulations. Um heating food to the proper temperature, cooling it to the proper temperature, storing it correctly. Um and then Susan was with Mara and I more so looking at more of um like they looked at our wellness policy to make sure that we had updated that within that certain time frame it was looked at. Um they looked at our financials making sure that one our fund 50 wasn't in a deficit. um that it didn't have over an average of 3 months of expenses built up in it. And if it did have that, then we had

077to come up with a plan of how we're going to spend it down because that's the most we're supposed to have in there at the end of the year is three months worth of expenses. Um yeah, they went through all of that with us. Um if anything needed to be corrected, updated, anything like that, they looked at that and showed us how to do it. Um, there were some things that that they really got nitpicky on like um they had to weigh the scoop. Yep. That was grapes. They had to weigh the scoop. Uhhuh. I'm not making stuff up, Rich. Uh, yep. One of one thing that they found was to have a reimburseable meal, you had to have at least a half a cup of fruits and vegetables. It can be mixed. and and

078one or two kids got six grapes, which is 1/4 cup of fruit, and then they only got six carrots, which is less than a/4 cup of vegetables. So, it didn't count. That was one started. I don't want to talk about the milk. I still have PTSD. So, we'll just let that Yeah. So, we were a couple carrot shorts on a couple kids, but the best was because we have some preschoolers that well, there's this preschool issue, too, but some kindergarteners that don't always take everything. So, when they're there, they had to take everything. So, I got a four-year-old standing in front going, put it on your plate and take it. Super good times for everybody. Um but yeah, so that that was a lot of it is just making sure that they had everything on

079their plate they needed to be and and yeah, one of the things that Heather had to do was it was I think a scoop of like taco meat or some random thing and it was the scoop is a size. Well, they don't want to know the size, you want to know the weight. Is that why it was in cups the other day? Probably. That might have been I thought that was really weird was in a cup the other day. She had to go. Yep. So, normally how often will they So, this typically is a fiveyear occurrence. Um, yeah. And they typically rotate between different. So, technically we have two schools, our elementary and then our middle school, high school. So, since we had elementary this time, we're probably going to have middle school high school

080next time. Aren't they coming back this summer again? Coming back for summer. Oh, that's a that's a separate audit. So, we have another one coming up this summer for our summer food service program. Um, that one's separate. That one's every three years. So, every 15 years, we have them in the same year, which is always fun. Um, yeah. Okay, I'm going to go to the milk. So, the teachers, the kids go and get their milk or they send somebody to get their milk and they bring it back to the classroom and then the teacher logs on the on the skyward and says, "Who had milk?" And they click click click click who had milk. That's not good enough. The teachers now have to either bring in a computer or bring in their phone and log

081into it and actually see the kid pick the milk out of the carton and click it. Yes, it has to be I'm not making this up. Yes. Right at the point of service. That's where everything has to be logged because something could happen between the cafeteria and the classroom because we're obviously stealing from DPI's food service and making millions off of one milk at a time. Yes. So now we have I mean literally it something that used to take three or four minutes. You have to line the kids up. You have to go in there. Somebody's got to watch your kids. Kids have to go in there. Yeah. You can't send a kid to get them out. You have to go as they take it out of the cooler. Individual. Wow. You know those little

082urchins? You never know. Can't we just do that every five years when they come? I thought about that. But we're going to play along here at the beginning a little while. You'll have some kindergarter that says we don't do it that much. Make it look good. I've never had to do this before. I mean, what's what's the repercussion for telling the auditor? I can see that. Well, I mean, really, what what if if we just said that's ridiculous, we're just going to have the Is there any place where we get those feedback on this? because I think you're perfect example of that one is my understanding is if what we need to we had 30 days for corrective action which they audited us with 29 days ago to the end of school. Yeah. So what

083they want to see is that if we do it this way and when the numbers come back and they're the same as we did it the other way they'll say that's fine. Yeah. Because it's definitely somebody can steal the milk, right? All we know how many milk we have and you click and see and it's like how many put out here's how many we got. And a kid drops the milk. to go back and get another milk. You know what I mean? That's It's never going to be exactly perfect. Are we stealing 15 milk today? No. It's good. But yeah, that was part of it. It was slow. It I mean, it was great. It was a great learning experience. I can't wait for another five years. Maybe I won't be here. It won't be

084you in five years because it'll be upstairs. That's true. Regardless, I'm out. But you're going to do it this summer. I I will be here this summer for it. It'll be great. Yeah. It sounds like there was quite a few school districts in CISA 3 that had it because that was something that was brought up a couple times at my CISA 3 meetings and I know um Platville, they looked specifically at like their 4K. They got in trouble because they did not have the menu posted as you walked into the lunch line and I'm like they can't read. Exactly. That was his point. But they were like DPI doesn't care. That's a rule. You have to have the lunch menu posted here even if you can't read it. So that's one thing they got in

085trouble for was your lunch menu. So the state of Wisconsin pays proudly a group of people to run around counting milks and all their public schools. I mean I've always it's blown my mind that people are fans of the voucher program. When you look at how public schools are forced to spend taxpayer dollars, you're well the voucher program should have to do the same thing. Oh my goodness. Well, thank you, Alison. Andy, any other Nope. I'll let it go. Insanity. No, that's that's those are the highlights. Wow. The best of the best. All right. Next up then last thing on theformational agenda uh by now familiar our breakdown of the activity fund accounts where I'll remind everybody and part because it doesn't still make any sense to me but negative balances are good and positive

086balances are true. Yes. And right now we do have five clubs that have positive balances which are bad. Um, so I have just sent them all emails just kind of come up with a plan of action of what are we going to do to rectify this kind of look at fundraisers, what's the plan, things like that. You must have a negative balance in your Yeah, that's that's always one thing that's fun to explain to any new advisors is when I give them the or I shouldn't say I cuz Becky's taking over it. um is you want negative balances which doesn't make sense but it's really the school showing that this is money that we owe stack clubs technically. Yeah, forensics is there's two of them there. Forensics is one and and that don't have any

087credits at all this year. They're just spending money that they had before. Now is that those are the ones I' concerned about. You can't spend money any you know what I mean. Um like on some supplies for their entry fees, things like that. So, it's just going to be a conversation with that. And I know that they had quite a big surplus for a while and now they've spent Are we talking now? Forensics. So, what do they need an activity account for anyway? I don't get that. They went to state and stuff. Does that count? Yeah, they went they had a lot lot of kids going to state this year. So, like and it's an extracurricular activity, but we don't fund any of that. We pay transportation. to get the we do with some of

088it. Some of the expenses go in there and some of them the school pays for um a lot of it is like I'd be interested in what expenses I know that this is not not the point is but do they have to pay like entrance fees for forensics events? I don't some of that my wife's the adviser. I don't know anything about it. Well, they should it would be interesting to know. Does that come out of activity account though for them? No, most of what comes out of the activity fund account is like if they are there for an overnight longer day and they get a meal. Okay, that's what I was that's what I that's what I had in my head. But then I was like extra like paying for this for the kids

089or you know not the actual entry fees and stuff cuz yeah that should be taken care of the other stuff. Okay, that makes more sense. All right. And and yearbook is kind of another special one. We used to subsidize we do we still subsidize that other than paying an advisor. We actually Okay. Yeah. So if I have money coming in buying them, I think has she given you a fair amount of stuff so far or not? Well, a lot of it was done online, but if somebody did do it online, we get we get some here and there. Yes. And I know a lot of your books and that kind of thing. I think so. Yes. I think that's all part. Very good. That brings us right down. Anybody else have any questions on the

090activity funds? Brings us down, I believe, to superintendence report. Kim, is this going to be Kim tonight? I went to bed. Yeah, I did not go to bed, but it is getting darker in my room. I um first want to apologize. I got emotional to start. I just want my life back so badly and so a taste of it made me emotional. But I just want to acknowledge that I've been in constant collaboration with Mara and Allison and um Erin and Andy and Scott. um they keep me updated and include me in discussions about responses to ongoing issues and day-to-day dynamics of their work. I deeply appreciate the additional responsibilities they've taken on at this time and um I don't really have anything to add other than I am um focusing on getting as healthy

091as I can just so I can get back as quickly as I possibly can. We look forward to getting you back. Thank you. I do have one superintendent report thing. A couple of you I told was kind of funny. But anyway, so so through this process, we get these emails of things to show up to and be and whatever else. Oh, no. This is good. This is awesome. That kind of did it. So, you know, we're like, okay, do we really need to go to this? You know, do you think we need to show Andy? should one of us be there to hear this or join in this webinar or whatever. So, we get this email and it's about this roundt going on in Richland Center and it was sent to all the everybody, you

092know, out there and it's going to be the lieutenant governor and Brad Path and Sarah Kayi and they're going to, you know, discuss all the federal funding and all the changes with everything and whatever. And so Andy and I talked and we're like, "Yeah, one of us should go." I'm like, "All right, well, I'll go." He's like, "Okay, good." No. I said, "You never get out of Dilling. You should go." So he did. Yeah. I was like, "All right, fine." So I emailed the lady back. I just said, "Hi, this is Aaron from Kickaboo. I'll plan to be there tomorrow." All right, great. Thank you. So in my head, I'm just thinking I'm going to show up and I'm going to be one of 50 people in education that are there and whatever else. And

093I get done with softball practice and I get in the truck and I look at my emails and there's an email from the lady and she said, "Thank you everyone for participating tomorrow. It's going to be a great day. Um, we're really excited. The lieutenant governor is going to be there." Da da da. Here is the run of show for tomorrow. Johnny is talking about this. Erin Midum from the Kickable School District will talk about federal school funding. And I'm like, what? What? Like totally freaking out. I'm like, I I didn't sign up for this. Like I didn't say anything about anything. So I like So the lady leaves the number and keep in mind this was Wednesday night. It's tomorrow morning at 9:00. I'm like, "Okay." Like, so I text, she had a number.

094I text her. I'm like, "Hi, Sarah. This is Aaron." Um I I must have somehow gotten confused because I don't know any ever discussion of I was leading leading the discussion for all the superintendents on federal funding. And then he calls me. So at 5:30 I get a phone call from Aaron and I'm like this can't be good. So I hit it. I'm go Yeah. And then he goes, "Did you get that email? That doesn't make me feel any better." So anyway, long story short, she's like, "I'm sorry. I just nobody else signed up so I put you on there. Just put you in there, right? Okay. So, I went and I actually talked I think I had some pretty good points. Talked about vouchers a little bit. Just talked about funding, talked about what

095things look like. Um, so it was good. I mean, you know, there were only like 25 or 30 people there. Um, lieutenant anyway. She was there. So, anyway, it was kind of humorous. It ended up going okay. It was fine. But um yeah, it was kind of I was like what? Like zero discussion of anything like of the run of the show. So anyway, that was my one point that I thought I would hit on. But yeah, it was actually good. I mean, it gave an opportunity to kind of talk about just the funding with things and how that's going to look like and that element to stuff. And and it was interesting to hear, you know, people at the table because everybody came from a little different avenue. You know, we we came from

096the school aspect of the anticipation part. I mean, it hasn't directly been cut yet, but we're looking at it and saying, "What is this going to look like if and when it does get cut?" And then you had some of the businesses there and they're like, we already have this applied to our business and this is the cost of what we are now trying to sell and recoup and it is not really functional. And I ended up I talked I talked right after the lady um who led the Head Start program and they've already been cut. And so what I had planned to talk about was just the element of how difficult it's going to be for us if we have $800 and some thousand dollars cut and how to educate special ed kids and

097what we're going to do. And then she got done talking and I was like, "Wow, you just added a whole new layer to what I was just going to say because I'm looking at this kids from five on to educate and now those kids who will have absolutely zero services from three to five are going to come even that much further behind. and that's going to make this element even exacerbated even more. And then that's when Senator Kayi said, she goes, "Lot more people in prison." I mean, that's exactly what she said. And I was kind of like, "Wow." But, you know, it was it was kind of interesting, you know, but everybody had a little different avenue. Some had some where they were already experiencing it. Some people were just anticipating and worried like

098what's this going to look like and what's it going to happen? some people had had, you know, partial of it implemented and so it was it was interesting, but it was good. So anyway, that's my little story. Well, I'm glad it went well, but I was counting somebody puts a meeting together and I'll just tell and I I did ask about the voucher thing. And I just said, you know, I said, it's not really I said, they don't have to follow any of the same rules. that, you know, I said, "Is there ever a point that you can just put this and take it so that it goes on a ballot just like other states who have voted it out?" She said, "It'd be great to think, but I can tell you if I tried

099to do that right now, it wouldn't it wouldn't go anywhere." Doesn't even have a legislator. Chris said that she in the meeting. So, yeah. So, they would have to do it. Yeah. So anyway, there was at least an answer to understand like, okay, why, you know, because obviously if it comes to a vote and you go to the booth and say, you know, hey, you do you support voucher schools in the state and you answer no and but she said it won't even ever even begin to get there because they know what the answer is going to be, right? I mean, every state that's voted, it has not been close, right? I mean people and so I don't want to jump in it but everybody who has this I'm not going to go through it

100but we talked it in the PLA meeting that sounds like this Russ Kava is a a new I think assembly person. So he put together all the all the schools that went to referendum and then the cost of not being funded correctly for special education and then the choice aid reduction. So you can kind of look at amount and total that you know it's pretty clear why people are having to go to referendum. So that's what this is. This choice aid reduction. How much is the open enrollment out or no vouchers? That's vouchers. Okay. I took it as maybe the open enrollment out. No, that's vouchers. The choice program is but you're right because it's 91,000 and that's exactly what Yeah. So I don't want to jump in, but that's what this is just for

101your information and you know we talked a little bit at the PLA meeting. Well, moving on then. Keep going. Okay. Um well with that one of the things I ahead and I I think I talked about it with a few people in here earlier but um I know that Chris has been working with you know some of the other schools and people just as far as our voucher wording and Chris Shoul who is Megan Shulo's mom has um joined that part with her and just had came in and asked today like hey is this okay if we share the school's language when we go to some of these other schools and I said I think we've already Kim you could comment on that but I think we've already shared it you know what I mean

102with lots of people so I don't think that's an issue. But if everybody's okay, I just would get back to her and say, "Sure, go ahead." You know what I mean? If you're going out to schools, go share the language and let them know. Um there's one thing um principal stuff, end of the year, it's pretty much just survival mode with things right now, everything going on and graduation and trips and everything. And um trying to get the end of the year stuff done. Um graduation, I've got both, so we're covered for high school. Can anybody help out or willing to help out for eighth grade? If not, it's not the end of the world. It's not like would be then that is June 3rd. Is that Tuesday? Um, just check. If not, again, it's

103not I think the high school one is obviously, you know, if we can get somebody there, great. Speak, right? No, you don't have to speak. You just have to hand out the diplomas. So, just if anybody can get back to me, let me know. If not, we'll go from there. But, um, Bo, I'll touch base about specifics with high school. Um, class numbers, talked about that. We'll bring that to the June meeting. So, we're just about done with scheduling and getting that done. Um, and other than that, just wanted to the phone policy. We'll communicate with that before the end of the year. And it's what I have. Any questions? Um, the booster club on Friday is having a school carnival. other things outside. Um Sam Goodwin puts a lot of time into that. It's

104got It's going to be a lot like when they did the Halloween party in the fall. So that that's on Wednesday. WB sent me a request. They're doing um a video around the state. They're going to different schools. to have some kids speak on the on how on public schools and they had a script and they asked if there were some kids who would do that and I had a meeting with him and he said I'll get back to you and that was two weeks ago. So I don't know what's going on if they're actually doing it or not. Um they wanted small schools, big schools and he had her name and that was one that Mara sent I think that went to Kim that he they sent on to us. So, there's a chance

105that we might get a little pub for kickoo if he calls me back. Um, track and field day was today. There will be sunburned and ory kids tomorrow in the elementary if you'd like to come watch those. Um, the elementary concert is this coming Wednesday night, a week from tonight. And a shout out to Dustin and Sam, especially Sam for all the time they put into the track and field. They they she gets the seniors to be the to lead the groups around. They have all kinds of activities on the inside or on the inside of the track where they wheelbarrow races and tugof-war and everything else. And I said before, summer school numbers up to 163. So that's more than we've had in the past. So we're going to keep trying to get more

106and more kids in and then we'll just make her to the end of the year. Any questions? Nope. Thank you both. We will convene the close session pursuant to Wisconsin state statute 19.85 A5 paragraph 1 part C uh considering employment promotion compensation or performance evaluation data of any public employee over which governmental body is jurisdiction or exercises responsibility. Also uh 198 19.85 part F and 118.125 for the purpose of discussing a student expulsion appeal and student concerns. Tonight's purposes 2526, support staff pay, elementary teacher positions, employee leave, summer softball and baseball coaches and volunteers, and an expulsion appeal and student concern. I'll entertain a motion to convene in close session. Make a motion that we close session. Second. Motion by Earl, second by Bo. Thank you both. And we'll do a roll call vote for

107this file, please. Rich James, yes. Bo Shrader, yes. Peggy McCormack, yes. Janet Matthysse, yes. Earl Wallace, yes. Isaac, were you able to log on? I'm here. And yes. Hey, yes. Okay, we're back in open session and we've got some business to deal with. Motion to approve the support staff pay as presented by Ellison. I'll second. Motion by Earl, second by Janet. All in favor? I Okay. make motion to approve the hiring of two elementary people, Amy Clemens and Cassidy Green. Are we including Tanya in this too? Uh, she's technically Yeah, we should. Tanya Leman, I'll second it. Motion by Earl, second by Janet. All in favor? I I Okay. Motion to the following for summer softball and baseball staff. 14 under to 10 and under. Lorie Kaufman for softball coach. T-ball is Dustin Clemens, coach.

108Eighters, Bo Shreder, Schroeder, helpers Kaufman, Harmony Wigner, Matthew Townsen, and Cat Townsen. Summer baseball staff 12 and under, Ken Green's coach 14 and under is Ryan Wiggle and 10 and under is Rhett Wiggle Ewing and Jackson strikes as high school helpers. Subs are Dustin Clemens and Jake Gerby. Motion by Earl, second by somebody else. Me. Rich to approve summer softball and baseball coaches and volunteers. All in favor? I'm going to abstain from this one since my child is one of them. Wonderful. One abstension then. Anybody opposed? The motion passes. Leaving us with one motion to hit the table yet tonight. Motion by Janet that we need back. Thank you everybody. Go back. We're going to react. Thank you. Second last one. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Thank you. Yeah.